Content summary: Shel’s in Toronto for the IABC 2010 World Conference; more FIR Speakers & Speeches podcasts posted, and more to come; 5 minutes on… is Digg dying?, FT iPad app proves more popular than its iPhone app (should that be a surprise?), Lufthansa mixes flight updates with social media, blogs vs Twitter: some metrics, is the US descending into a nation of bloggers?; listener comment; News That Fits: satire and wisdom from @BPGlobalPR, B2B increasing its social spend, Michael Netzley reports from Singapore, the Media Monitoring Minute from CustomScoop, video will be over 90% of internet traffic by 2014 says Cisco, Dan York reports; news about next week’s show; music from Ghosts On The Radio; and more.

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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, for June 7, 2010: A 66-minute podcast recorded live from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and Wokingham, Berkshire, England.

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So, until Monday June 14…

(Cross-posted from For Immediate Release, Shel’s and my podcast blog.)